Simple Plan

Simple Plan take the ups and downs of the teenage punk world and set them to bursts of guitar-monic exuberance. They may be singing about loneliness, isolation and "The Worst Day Ever," but the choruses come in with such precision you'll have a hard time doing anything but pogo.

At a time when Sum 41 are considered transgressive, their fellow Canadians Simple Plan
slide undetected into the punk pit. Pierre Bouvier's clipped, nasal singing fits the bill, as do
the songs: brief, ephemeral, tautly structured, bombastically produced blasts of snotty
posing. But while the boys might be angsty, they're far from alienated. No Pads offers
clean, pleasant rebellion that knows nothing of John Ashcroft and everything of... More >